
Book contents
- Saints and Symposiasts
- Series page
- Saints and Symposiasts
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Conversation and community
- Part II Consumption and transgression
- Chapter 9 Philosophers and parasites
- Chapter 10 Food and the symposium in the Greek and Latin novels
- Chapter 11 Food and fasting in the Apocryphal Acts
- Chapter 12 Food and fasting in early Christian hagiography
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index locorum
Chapter 12 - Food and fasting in early Christian hagiography
from Part II - Consumption and transgression
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
- Saints and Symposiasts
- Series page
- Saints and Symposiasts
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Conversation and community
- Part II Consumption and transgression
- Chapter 9 Philosophers and parasites
- Chapter 10 Food and the symposium in the Greek and Latin novels
- Chapter 11 Food and fasting in the Apocryphal Acts
- Chapter 12 Food and fasting in early Christian hagiography
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index locorum
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- Saints and SymposiastsThe Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, pp. 323 - 351Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012